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Gathering: looking back

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dave McDonough and the local host committee also did a terrific job of making our stay in Long Beach exciting. Dave more or less froze on the Long Beach harbor tour, drinking ice cold beer in shirt sleeves while many people wore heavy coats or hid belowdeck where it was warmer and out of the wind!

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch

It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. The newly minted founder joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator , where she developed a curriculum to teach people how to repair EV chargers. Ellis is now the chief workforce officer at ChargerHelp.

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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

Connection Cafe

Long Beach. 415,068.00. 3,831,628.14. 136,067.00. 1,254,477.80. 164,759.00. 1,515,883.50. 105,809.00. 964,894.77. 967,487.00. 8,795,222.76. Tallahassee. 182,965.00. 1,662,103.19. 9,084.27. 114,605.00. 679,534.55. Huntsville. 182,956.00. 1,082,520.81. 155,896.00. 913,648.40. 465,576.00. 2,697,382.25. Albuquerque. 552,804.00.

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Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon have a dirty shipping problem

The Verge

As of January 28, a record 38 container ships were on standby to offload cargo to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles amid a wave of online consumer goods purchases in the U.S. Giant retailers, including Amazon and Ikea, have pledged to go green, but their shipping is still pretty dirty. amid the pandemic.

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